Humor in Environmentalism

For some peculiar reasons, environmentalists seem to like stating facts and pointing to statistics , trying their bests to explain the environmental problem our world is encountering, They are so busy to get their ideas across, and that may lead to their always sincere character. Unfortunately, others may not take them as seriously as they are. Comedians, for example, like to make fun of the stern stance that environmentalists always pertain. To illustrate, we watched a short clip of a discussion between the environmentalists and the politician. During the discussion, the environmentalists deploy a very earnest and virtuous position. The politician, on the other hand, tries to be more humorous during the discussion but resonance did not seem to successfully built up between the two parties. In the clip, the environmentalist see the world to only have two types of people: wolf-lover and non-wolf-lover. The environmentalists, although, are right about the fact that we should take precautions to save the wolf packs, they did not show enough understandings of how being environmentally aware could also impact other people’s lives negatively. The clip demonstrates how the public generally perceive environmentalists to have a more stand-off position and have simply interest in the environment but nothing else. However, if environmentalists have been seen this way, why cannot environmentalists try to use a more humorous approach to make their ideas more easily accepted by the public? Maybe more environmentalists should learn how to present their ideas in a more likable way such that they can be appear less environmentally focused but a little bit more humanity focused.

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